Sentence T5 Base measured on 15 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks15
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85.2MTEB English v2
Feb 2022released
0K tokensMax input
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Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+28%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1cOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated+48%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBiBetterE5 Base v2unstatedOpen+8%—$0.005
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+43%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+33%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
EmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+28%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1iE5 Base v2unstatedOpen+8%—$0.005Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+43%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+33%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+24%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
cF2LLM v2 8BunstatedOpen+48%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBOOcten Embedding 8BOpen+43%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GB
Llama Embed Nemotron 8BOpen+43%——Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+43%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1SSFR Embedding 2 RunstatedOpen+42%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
sLaBSEunstatedOpen+18%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBsParaphrase Multilingual Mpnet Base v2unstatedOpen+12%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsParaphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen+6%——sSentence T5 LargeunstatedOpen+6%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsGtr T5 LargeunstatedOpensame——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsAll Mpnet Base v2unstatedOpen-4%—$0.005sAll MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen-7%—$0.005sAll MiniLM L6 v2unstatedOpen-7%—$0.005All sentence-transformers models →Run it yourself
estimateFits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use
Benchmarks
in Embeddings & RetrievalBEIR · Mean over tasks · English33.6#160
BEIR · Retrieval · English33.6#160
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch63.1#80
FAQ
How much does Sentence T5 Base cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.
How good is Sentence T5 Base, and what is it best at?›
#82 of 238 in Embeddings.
Is Sentence T5 Base better than Snowflake Arctic Embed M v1.5?›
On MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch, Sentence T5 Base scores 29.1 vs 29.3 — about the same.
When was Sentence T5 Base released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2022-02-09. It is the current version in its line.
Is Sentence T5 Base open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run Sentence T5 Base locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is Sentence T5 Base?›
Sentence T5 Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Feb 2022.
What are the best alternatives to Sentence T5 Base?›
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).